Director

Xiao Zhang

Directing

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Beginning to build directing work.

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 3

TMDB ID: 4186045

Known for: Directing

Born: December 21, 1997

Age: 28

Place of birth: China

Gender: Non-binary

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2023 - 2026

Years active: 4

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Director (2)Assistant Camera (1)

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Biography

Xiao Zhang is a filmmaker and artist based between Dongguan, China, and Los Angeles. Their work centers on personal poetics derived from memory, afterimages and mythology. They consider film a haptic medium, a lucid dream of traces, absence, and exile. They hold an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Beijing Film Academy. Their work has been shown internationally at festivals and museums including the BFI London Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, CROSSROADS, Beijing International Short Film Festival, REDCAT (Los Angeles), and Tai Kwun (Hong Kong), among others.

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